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Lot 163
Qianlong period porcelain planter decorated in the `Doucai` style. Ht. 9 ins. Diam. 12.5 ins. (Blue seal type mark to base) A good porcelain jardinière with high rounded sides rising straight from the foot to the slightly lipped edge, Below the rim a band of shaped panels enclosing florets between leaves on a blue ground. The body of the planter finely painted in dark and light green, aubergine, pink, yellow and white enamels with washed iron-red and clear underglaze-blue outlines, with five elaborate roundels each of a pink, a yellow and two blue flowers encircling a large red lotus flower amidst leaves all gathered in a ring, each surrounded by stylised leaves and entwined stems, all between a border of multi-coloured lappets around the base and pendent ruyi-heads above. The glazed foot encircling a slightly countersunk base with a wide unglazed ring around a further countersunk white glazed circle bearing a six-character mark in underglaze-blue, with white glazed interior.
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Barrelier (Jacques) Plantae per Galliam Hispaniam Opus Posthumum edited by Antonio de Jussieu engraved additional architectural title with plants and portrait medallion (not duplicated as it sometimes is) title with woodcut device approbation leaf 1327 engraved illustrations on 334 plates (i.e. all but final 3 plates with four illustrations to a page) a few with contemporary annotations in ink engraved title and one or two other leaves with faint water-staining occasional light browning engraved bookplate of Spains Hall Finchingfield on front pastedown contemporary calf gilt spine gilt but lacking label a little worn joints split gouge to lower cover [Nissen 80; Hunt 432] folio Paris S.Ganeau 1714. *** Depicting mostly plants but also including coral starfish crabs shells and other marine life. Barrelier was a Dominican priest who travelled widely in France Spain and Italy collecting many unknown plants. He was preparing this edition for publication and already had the plates engraved in Rome (by an unknown artist) when he died suddenly in 1673. His manuscripts were later destroyed in a fire. Antoine de Jussieu discovered the plates nearly 40 years later and had them published with his own text.
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Bergier (Nicolas) Histoire des Grands Chemins de l 2 vol. engraved frontispiece titles in red and black with engraved vignette 4 engraved plates (2 folding) and 2 long folding engraved maps (each on 4 conjoined sheets the whole map extending to c.4 metres long in total) lacking 2 portraits engraved head-pieces woodcut initials explanatory leaf at end of vol.2 small ink stain on title of vol.2 some light browning and soiling slight worming to inner margin of vol. 1 towards end affecting a few letters engraved bookplate of Spains Hall Finchingfield on front pastedowns contemporary mottled calf a little worn joints split 4to Brussels Jean Leonard 1736. *** The map is a version of the 13th century Peutinger table a parchment scroll itself a copy of an ancient map depicting all the roads of the Roman empire. The depiction is greatly distorted featuring a compressed Mediterranean with an elongated Italy; the map extends from Iberia (one section is probably missing from the 13th century table) right across to India.
Lot 5
Bruce (James) Travels to Discover the Source of th in the Years 1768...1773 5 vol. first edition half-titles engraved title-vignettes and coat-of-arms at head of dedication 3 folding engraved maps 3 engraved battle plans each with explanatory leaf of text 55 engraved plates and 4 leaves of Ethiopian dialects between pp.400 and 401 in vol.1 lacking 2I6 in vol.5 (final blank) vol.1 with a few ink or pencil annotations 4D1 in vol.4 and 5C4 (final leaf) in vol.3 with marginal tear (the second repaired no loss to text) maps a little foxed and offset occasional light spotting or soiling but generally a very clean copy engraved bookplate of Spains Hall Finchingfield on front pastedowns contemporary half calf spines with red morocco labels (volume nos. chipped) rubbed marbled paper on boards slightly defective at edges joints cracked spine ends a little worn [Blackmer 221] 4to Edinburgh and London 1790. *** Important account of Bruce`s travels in Egypt and Abyssinia including plates of natural history antiquities artifacts and monuments. “He will always remain the poet and his work the epic of African travel.” DNB On p.125 vol.1 Bruce refers to a ruler burning alive some outlaws in a cave. A pencil note in the margin reads “the reflexion on this horrid deed of an Egyptian despot shows Mr Bruce the writer to have an unfeeling heart and it may be fact”. Other contemporary annotations include cross-references to Norden`s Antiquities Natural History Ruins and other Curiosities of Egypt Nubia and Thebes (see lot ).
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Lot 7
(Captain James) [Second Voyage] A Voyage towards t (Captain James) [Second Voyage] A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World... 2 vol. first edition engraved portrait and 63 plates charts and portraits many folding and/or double-page folding letterpress table some light offsetting and occasional soiling but generally very clean engraved bookplate of Spains Hall Finchingfield and ink inscription “John Ruggles 1817” with ink armorial stamp of T.Ruggles on front pastedowns contemporary calf a little worn joints split two covers detached some labels defective [Hill p.61; Mitchell Library Cook 1216; Rosove 77A1; Sabin 16245; PMM 223] 4to for W. Strahan and T.Cadell 1777. *** The first recorded voyage to the Antarctic. “Cook was a brilliant navigator and hydrographer an excellent administrator and planner and probably the first sea captain to realize the importance of preserving the health and well-being of his crew...On his second voyage of 112 men on board the Resolution which he commanded Cook lost only one by disease - and that not scurvy - a unique achievement in his time.” PMM.
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Dearn (Thomas D.W.) Designs for Lodges and Entranc first edition half title engraved plan and 19 sepia aquatint plates and plans some light foxing and browning a few pencil architectural sketches loosely inserted contemporary half calf spine gilt rubbed spine and corners worn spine defective at head and foot [Abbey Life 12] 4to J.Taylor 1811.
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Lot 15
(Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum...] 3 vol. s (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum...] 3 vol. second edition vol.1 first edition vol.2 & 3 vol.1 with additional engraved architectural title but lacking half-title and letterpress title vol.2 & 3 with titles in red and black vol.3 lacking initial blank with folding engraved map and 102 plates by Wenceslas Hollar and others 37 double-page and/or folding one engraved illustration in text ink inscription “£14 : 14s Bibliothecae Ivesianae 1772” (John Ives) at head of all titles with an A.L.s. from Dugdale to Dr. Robert Brady of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge tipped in at beginning of vol.1 some plates a little faint or smudged many trimmed and mounted (mostly costume plates) vol.1 with a few leaves of Index misbound vol.3 with errata on 3G2 and 3A1 trimmed at foot but no loss to text some light browning or soiling ink armorial stamp of Thomas Ruggles and engraved bookplate of Spains Hall Finchingfield on front pastedowns (pasted over an earlier bookplate and annotated at foot “from White Bookseller Fleetstreet
Lot 16
Edwards (Bryan) The History Civil and Commercial 3 vol. including supplement second edition vol.1 & 2 first edition vol.3 half-title in vol.3 3 engraved frontispieces (including portrait) and 8 plates large folding general map in 2 parts and 10 other maps (2 folding) errata leaf at end of vol.2 tissue guards occasional foxing light browning at beginning and end of vol.3 engraved bookplate of Spains Hall Finchingfield on front pastedowns contemporary tree calf spines gilt with red and green morocco labels rubbed some joints split corners a little worn [Sabin 21901] 4to 1794-1801. *** The first collected edition with volume 3 containing An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St.Domingo. The maps in this edition are not present in the first edition.
Lot 17
Equiano (Olaudah) The Interesting Narrative of the written by himself third edition engraved portrait list of subscribers folding engraved plate of shipwreck with accompanying letterpress leaf of biblical verses contemporary ink inscription at head of title (slightly cropped) some light soiling or browning ink inscripton “John Ruggles 1791” on front free endpaper (water-stained) contemporary half calf rubbed spine worn at head [cf.Sabin 22714 other editions] 12mo for the Author 1790. *** Olaudah Equiano was captured when he was a child in present-day Nigeria and sold as a slave in Virginia. He subsequently bought his freedom travelled to London and became part of the abolitionist movement writing his autobiography to bring to attention the horrors of slavery.
Lot 18
Gerard (John) The Herball or Generall Historie of edited by Thomas Johnson third edition engraved title by John Payne numerous woodcut illustrations a few with contemporary hand-colouring occasional annotations in contemporary hand lacking initial and final blank leaves also 7A1 (Table) but supplied in neat contemporary ms. tears to E5 3O1 4A3 4P3 & 7A5 (most with leaf reinforced at edge the last repaired with stitching) some light soiling and staining but generally a clean copy engraved bookplate of Spains Hall Finchingfield on front pastedown eighteenth century russia with gilt borders spine gilt rubbed joints split corners and spine ends worn lacking label [Henrey 156; Hunt 230; Nissen BBI 698; STC 11752] folio by Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers 1636.
Lot 19
Graves (George) British Ornithology 3 vol. first edition 143 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 144 lacking `Loxia chloris` in vol.3) vol.1 with ms. index bound in at beginning a few ink annotations some light foxing but many plates clean original cloth worn vol.1 & 2 loose in binding vol.3 broken spines torn and defective [Nissen IVB 386] 8vo for the Author 1811-21.
Lot 20
Graves (George) Ovarium Britannicum being a correct delineation of the Eggs of such Birds as are natives of...Great Britain [Part I all published] half-title 15 hand-coloured engraved plates of eggs tissue guards 4pp. prospectus for New Series of `Flora Londinensis` edited by Graves bound in at end (with name and address corrected in ink 4to folding to 8vo) some light foxing mostly to tissue guards original boards uncut paper label on upper cover a little worn lacking spine upper cover becoming loose [Nissen IVB 387] 8vo for the Author 1816.
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Lot 22
[Hamilton (William Richard)] Memorandum on the sub second edition engraved head-piece tail-piece and plate by Henry Moses some light spotting or soiling broken original boards uncut paper label on upper cover rather worn spine torn and defective [Blackmer 781; cf. Atabey 554 third edition] 8vo William Miller 1811. *** Scarce pamphlet originally published in 1810 and reissued with corrections and additions in order to aid Lord Elgin in his ambition for the British government to purchase the famous marbles.
Lot 28
Labillardiere (Jacques Julien Houton de) Voyage in engraved frontispiece folding map and 44 plates advertisement leaf at end light foxing and offsetting engraved bookplate of Spains Hall Finchingfield on front pastedown contemporary sprinkled calf spine gilt rubbed splits to joints label chipped corners worn [Ferguson 309; Sabin 38421] 4to John Stockdale 1800. *** Account of the search for the Comte de La Perouse and his ships which had disappeared in the Solomon Islands in 1788 during their exepedition to explore the Pacific and Australasia.
Lot 29
Le Comte (Louis Daniel) Memoirs and Remarks...made engraved frontispiece title in red & black 3 engraved plates 2 folding folding letterpress table of vocabulary faint contemporary ink inscription at head of title light offsetting from plates and a little soiling at beginning and end but otherwise a very clean copy engraved bookplate of Spains Hall Finchingfield on frotn pastedowns contemporary sprinkled calf spine gilt with red morocco label rubbed corners and spine ends a little worn 8vo J.Hughs for Olive Payne... 1737.
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Lot 37
(Sir Isaac)] Excerpta quaedam Newtoni Principiis P (Sir Isaac)] Excerpta quaedam Newtoni Principiis Philosophiae Naturalis... [edited by John Jebb Robert Thorp and Francis Wollaston] first edition list of subscribers including Thomas Ruggles 12 folding engraved plates [Babson 15] Cambridge J.Bentham... 1765 bound after Fitz-Stephen (William) Description of the City of London first edition B.White 1772 and [Thomas (John)] A History of the Island of Anglesey...[with] Memoirs of Owen Glendowr first edition half-title J.Dodsley 1775 together 3 works in 1 vol. (the first mentioned bound last) light browning and marginal water-staining contemporary ms. index on front free endpaper engraved bookplate of Spains Hall Finchingfield on front pastedown and signature of John Ruggles with ink armorial stamp of Thomas Ruggles contemporary calf-backed marbled boards worn spine slightly defective 4to
Lot 39
Park (Mungo) Travels in the Interior Districts of new edition engraved portrait 2 folding maps with routes hand-coloured folding chart sheet of musical notation and 5 plates 1816; The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the year 1805 second edition folding engraved map with routes hand-coloured wood-engraved maps and illustrations in text with the final blank 1815 together 2 vol. half-titles foxing and offsetting the first with light water-staining to upper margin both with ink inscription “John Ruggles 1817” on front free endpaper the second with sheet of notes loosely inserted non uniform original boards uncut worn spines defective most covers detached 4to (2)(2)
Lot 47
(Capt. J.G.) Narrative of a Five Years` Expedition (Capt. J.G.) Narrative of a Five Years` Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam 2 vol. first edition engraved frontispiece vignette titles 2 folding maps and 78 plates and plans by William Blake Bartolozzi and others after the author errata leaves at end foxing and some soiling particularly to endpapers light water-staining to corner of frontispiece small marginal tear to one plate (repaired) contemporary half russia spines gilt rubbed joints split corners worn spines defective at head [Abbey Travel 719; Sabin 91075] 4to J. Johnson 1796.
Lot 50
Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Bucolicks... second edition folding engraved portrait 2 folding plates and 2 maps 1 folding 4pp. advertisements at end by R.Reily for T.Osborne 1749; The Georgicks third edition advertisement leaf at beginning 10 engraved plates 3 folding for T.Osborne 1755 together 2 vol. both translated by John Martyn titles in red and black some light browning or staining engraved bookplates of Spains Hall Finchingfield on front pastedowns near uniform contemporary calf gilt rubbed joints cracked spines worn at head 8vo *** Both contain natural history plates.
Lot 63
McDonald (Alexander) A Complete Dictionary of Prac 2 vol. 61 hand-coloured engraved plates and 13 uncoloured engraved plates by Sydenham Edwards some offsetting occasional spotting or light foxing mostly to text ff. a few marginal stains plates generally in good condition contemporary mottled calf attractively rebacked spines richly gilt and with double leather labels covers rubbed and scuffed g.e. [Nissen 480; Sitwell & Blunt 56] 4to 1807.
Lot 78
Tully (Richard) Narrative of a Ten Years` Residenc second edition folding engraved map 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates some light offsetting from plates folding map lightly water-stained original boards uncut paper label on spine rubbed and a little stained [Abbey Travel 301; Atabey 1241; Blackmer 1682; Tooley 493] 4to 1817. *** Containing more plates than the first edition.
Lot 80
(Charles West R.A.) After. Departure of the Pilgr (Charles West R.A.) After. Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delft Haven July 1620 mixed-method engraving by T.W. Knight 730 x 910mm. pale browning and light spotting a few minor surface abrasions and slight surface dirt mostly marginal New York William Schaus 1859.
Lot 83
Schomburgk (Sir Robert Hermann) Twelve Views of the Interior of Guiana first edition fine hand-coloured additional lithographed title by M. Gauci after Charles Bentley and 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates by George Barnard Coke Smith and P. Gauci after Charles Bentley dedication with gold-printed arms engraved map partially hand-coloured wood-engraved illustrations list of subscribers Esmeralda plate from another copy (mounted on a thicker card on a later sheet) marginal repairs verso to additional pictorial title and Ataraipu Roraima and Brazilian Fort plates some loss to upper margin of Brazilian Fort plate occasional light spotting or finger-soiling new tissue guards original pictorial boards rebacked in later morocco soiled and slightly rubbed [Abbey Travel 720; Sabin 77796; Tooley 447] a very good copy folio Ackermann & Co. 1840. *** Scarce. Between 1835 and 1839 Schomburgk conducted an expedition of exploration to British Guiana on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society. During his successful time there he discovered the giant Victoria Regia lily. He returned to the country in 1841 as a British government official to survey the colony and fix its eastern and western boundaries resulting in the provisional boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela known as the Schomburgk Line.
Lot 94
-. Mudford (William) An Historical Account of the half-title hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece additional pictorial title and 26 plates 2 folding maps 1 printed in green and partially hand-coloured C4 repaired tear within text no loss a few short marginal tears most repaired margins of plates with occasional spotting or light soiling generally internally clean contemporary diced russia gilt rebacked preserving original backstrip (slight loss at head) corners restored [Abbey Life 372; Tooley 272] a very good copy 4to 1817.
Lot 110
0 Letters on the East India Monopoly originally published in the Glasgow Chronicle with additions and corrections 2 parts in 1 second edition annotations to first few leaves 10 blank ff. at end contemporary half calf upper board detached Glasgow 1812 § Laurie (David) Hints Regarding the East India Company 56pp. light browning to edges modern wrappers Glasgow 1813 8vo (2) *** In 1812 the Company in order to help their efforts to renew their Charter considered relaxing their exclusive privileges relating to the export trade with India. However the proposed relaxation was only to benefit London merchants much to the consternation of their provincial colleagues. As a consequence over 30 pamphlets attacking the Company appeared in 1812-13 agitating for a complete opening to all British ports of the export trade. Those from Glasgow and Edinburgh “were as remarkable for their vehemence as for their general ignorance of the conditions under which the Indian trade was carried on.” (Philips). This led to a pamphlet war but the tide was turning against the Company and in 1813 it gave up its privileges.
Lot 121
Twining (Richard) Observations on the Tea and Wind third edition half-title advertisement leaf at end some light spotting modern wrappers spine faded [Goldsmiths` 12963; Kress B.977] 8vo T.Cadell 1785. *** The tea and coffee merchant Richard Twining (1749-1824) wrote a number of tracts on the tea trade before being elected a director of the East India Company in 1793. In this pamphlet he sets out his views on the suppression of smuggling attempts to reduce tea prices and the relative values of “Congou and Souchong teas”. Twining draws the attention of the public to the unscrupulous practice of adulteration describing the “method of making smouch with ash tree leaves to mix with black teas”.
Lot 138
Jovius (Paulus) Comentario de le Cose De`Turchi italic type title and verso of otherwise blank final f. with woodcut printer`s device woodcut criblé initial capital spaces with guide-letters repaired tear within text to G1&2 and K1&2 marginal repairs some staining and light spotting 20th century cloth-backed marbled boards [cf. Blackmer 699; Censimento 16 CNCE 21150] small 4to
Lot 156
Fitnat Hanim d. 1780. [Poems] first edition printed in Ottoman Turkish slightly browned and creased occasional light marginal staining a few ownership stamps on endpapers contemporary calf-backed floral patterned boards slightly rubbed and stained corners and edges worn 8vo [?Constantinople or Cairo 1802]. *** A collection of poems in the classical style by one of the most famous female Ottoman poets.
Lot 369
Middle East.- Blaeu (Johan and Willem) Turcicum Im the Middle East extending from the eastern Mediterranean to Arabia showing the Turkish Empire ornamental title cartouche with allegorical figures coat-of-arms and ships engraved map with original hand-colouring in outline 415 x 520mm. Dutch text on verso central vertical fold wit ha parallel crease some light browning faint show through of text Amsterdam (c.1640).
Lot 159
A WWI brass shell case fashioned as a lidded jug with angular handle bearing the initials and badge of the Royal Garrison Artillery, together with an early 20th Century brass shell case having twin bullet handles and decorated with the badge of the Eleventh London Regiment and the Twelveth Light Artillery Regiment and a 1960`s heavy artillery brass shell case.
Lot 557
Oak table organ, the lid inscribed in gilt lettering By Royal Letters Patent `The Ariel Automatic Organ`, the lid opening to reveal original `Directions for Playing` instruction paper, also bearing the retail plaque of C.C. Hambleton, within a light oak case with scratched carved floral decoration fitted with two side winding handles and supported upon an ebonised plinth, 20" wide overall; also with two boxes of 5.5" paper rolls
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